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June 14, 2006
Orquesta Tipica - a Film by Nicolas Ente
Watch this trailer. It's great, an indie documentary featuring the contemporary tango band "Orquesta Tipica Fernandez Fierro". There are some great scenes in here, like where crowd on the street chants to police "Let them play" while a middle-aged man pleads "We want tango, not cumbia that rots kids minds".
Quotes from the band members:
From the producer's description"Back in April, we got together with a bass, and a bandoneon player. So we said, since we are three, let's find a violinist and make a quartet. Within a month we went from 4 to 12 members." "Trying to assemble an orquestra tipica back then was already really huge." (The director) "They thought they were a garage band. With the Orquesta, I follow a dogma. The orchestra always comes first."
Twelve guys looking like punk rockers pushing a piano down the street. Their sound is elaborate but raw. Their music is politically committed while historically linked to counterculture; still, it is part of a genre more than a hundred years old. This is their story. This is Buenos Aires 2006.
Links
- Orquesta Típica Fernández Fierro web site
- CD @ DYM
- CD & DVD @ tangostore.com
Cool Photos
These are links. Click the photo to go to the web site hosting the full-size image. The fourth image is blank... but click to see a wonderful photo.
Posted by joegrohens at June 14, 2006 02:05 PM
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